120 GREENHEAI). . [KELLY'S Thirlwall ia a township, 4 miles west-nonb-west from as telling the news of Ellangowan'. death tOlMegIIMerri1e~. , and extends 5 miles north-east of Greenhead Sir WaIter Scott also relates (in the notes to that book) that station on the Newcastle and Carlisle section of the North Margaret Teasdale, the occupant, abstracted the bullets Eastern railwlltY. Here are the ruins of Thirlwall Castle, from the pistols of "I<'ighting" Charlie Liddesdale, and then -erected at the beginning of the 14th century, on the banks caused three ruffians to pursue and attack him. On the of the river Tipalt ; it is now a gloomy ruin situated amid opposite bank of the Irthing, and in the county of Cumber· ,a group of firs; only a fragment of the struct.ure, built of land, is spa, much frequented in the summer, on ashlar obtained from the Roman wall, and indosing dark account of its beautiful scenery and the chalybeate and passages with shouldered headings, is now standing, the sulphur springs issuing from the rocks; there are excellent. south side having fallen into the river in 183I i the interior baths, hotels and lodging houses. The principal landowners is overgrown with moss and rank vegetation; here it is said are the Earl of Carlisle and William Milburn esq. of New· Edward I. slept, September 20, 1306. At Carvoran, castle. The area is 7,788 acres of land and 47 of water; Muth-east from the ruins of the castle, is the site of the rateable value, £6,073 ; the population in 18g1 was 600. Roman station Magna, where interesting remains are still visible. POST, M. O. k T. 0., S. B. & .Annuity It Insurance Offic\l', Gilsland railway station.-Timothy Jackson, sub-post. Gilsland (formerly called ROSE HILL) is a hamlet in this master lit station master. Letters arrive from Carlisle, township, at the extreme western boundary of the county, 7.20 a.m. & 4.55 p.m. i from Newcastle, 8.15 a.m.; .with a station on the Newcastle and Carlisle section of the dispatched to Newcastle, 2.30 p.m. : to Carlisle, 3.55 k North Eastern railway. Here is "Mump's ha" (Beggars' 6.20 p.m. Sunday, arrive from Carlisle, 7.55 a.m. ; from Hall), formerly kept as an inn, and is the house mentioned Newcastle, 9.14 a.m. ; dispatched, Newcastle 6 p.m. & in " Guy Mannering," in which Dandie Dinmont is described Carlisle, 6.30 p.w Greenhead. Joicey Edward D.L., l.P. Blenkinsopp Gilsland (formerly ROSE HILT.). Bell Wallaoo hall: & NewbigginhalI, Blanchland Milburn William. Wardrew lodge COMMERCIA.L. Byron Colliery (Messrs. Thompson &; Morris Nicholas, Crook's view .Armstrong John, cowkpr. New cottages Sons, proprietors) Bainbridge Thomas, blacksmith *Dryden Jno. farmer It lndownr.Holeha COMMERCIAL. BIenkinsopp &; Thirlwall Cemetery(Rev. Henderson Messrs. farmers, Weydon Armstrong Jsph. blacksmith, RUllnersf·e, A. C. C. Vaughan M.A. clerk to the Cleughside Armstrong Robert, shoe maker burial board) *Henley William, hnntsman to Edward Bell William, chemist & grocer Carrick WiIliam, tailor, Leazes J oicey esq. The Darlees Bell John, tailor, Crooks Dixon Joseph, joiner, Smallburn *Nixon John, head gamekeeper to Blackburn Samuel, farmer, Gap Dryden John, farmer, Hole house Edward Joicey esq. Hill house Blackburn Wm. yeoman, :\Ieadow view F6rrester Thomas (Mrs.) &; Bell, far- Riddell Robert, farmer, Wrytree Eades Richard Augustus. Station hotel mers, Holmhead RidJey Tbomas, farmer, Waterloo Fenwick Joseph, farmer, Temon Greenhead Floral & Horticultural Smith Stephen, estate bailiff to E. Forster Joseph &; Sons, farmers, War- Society (Thomas Little, hon. sec) Joicey esq. Spital farm drew farm Greenhead Industrial Co-operative Snowdon William, farmer, College farm Graham Edwin, farmer, Gap shields Society Lim.(John Hudspith,jun.sec.; *Teasdale Robert. head gardener to Ed- Graham WiIIiam, Samson inn William G. T. Paterson, manager) ward Joicey esq. Westlodge GreggJas. draper &; fancy respository Hepple James, overman at the colliery, Thirlwall. Headley Henry, farmer, Shawtield Quarry honse (Marked thus -letters to be addressed Henderson Isabel (Miss), confectioner Hetherington Isaae, butcher Gilsland.] Hetherington William, shoe maker & Hudspith Ann (Mrs.), Greenhead hotel COMMERCIAL. shopkeeper, Runnersfoot Hudspith John, station master & post- Borrows Geo. farmer, ThirlwalI castle Irving Margart.(Mr:3.), cowkpr. Lanehd master, Railway station *Calvert Robert, cowkeeper, New craig Jaekson Timothy. station master& poSll- MarshalI WaIter, qnarry manager, Crowe Robert, farmer, Burnt walls master, Gilsland station Whinstone quarry *Davidson John, farmer,1"oul town Kennedy Nicholas, joiner &saw mill Maughan Roger, farmer, NewhaIl Dickinson James, farmer, Balmoral Moore M!l.rgaret (Mrs.), hosier &c. &; Millican Robert, shopkeeper Dixon J obn, farmer, Chapel house apartments, Daere house NixonWilIiam,cowkeeper,Byron cottage *Forster Robson &. Sons, farmers, Barn- Nicholson Thomas, lodgin!{ ho. Springho Pickering George, farmer, Glenwhelt house Robson Jane (Mrs.), farmer, War- Potts Isabella(Mrs.)&Edward,farmers, Grah']m John & Robt.farmers, Rothery- doughaw Bank top haugh Routledge .Adam, shoe maker, Crooks Reay Thomas, farmer, Carvoran Graham George, farmer, War carr Routledge William, joiner, Runnersfoot RiddeJI Robert, farmer, Wrytree Hudspith James, confectioner Smith John, farmer, Woodhouse Scott William, cowkeeper, Bank top *Jrving John, farmer, New hall Smith, Charles, butcher, Crooks Thompson James, joiner, Glenwhelt *Maughan Roger, farmer, New hall Smith WiIliam, farmer, Irthing house- Thompson Thomas Henry, grocer Nixon Thomas, shopkeeper & mason, Sowerby William, butcher, Bath house Waugh WiJliam, farmer,Low Glenwhelt Holyrood place Steel Robinson, farmer, Gap l31enkinsopp. Stothart Simon & Sons, frmrs.Whiteside Wilson Elizabeth (Mrs.), miller,Mill [Marked thus <> should be addressed Halt. Teasdale Bros. farmers, Greengate well Wilson Robert, farmer, Brittlestoue whistle. Carlisle.] Waugh Jacob & George, farmers, Moss Wright Thomas Irving, farmer &; land- '.Anne Ernest L. S. B1enkinsopp castle Peteral &; Farglow owner, Reaygal'th GREYSTEAD is a village and parish, comprising the Irent-charge £114, net yearly value £132, including 1'l townships of CHIRDON and SMALESMOUTH, on the south side acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Commis­ of the river North Tyne, and in a moorish and mountainous sioners of Greenwich Hospital, and held since 1891 by the district, which abounds with fish and game; it is 20 miles Rev. Bartholomew Ring LL.D. of Triuity College, Dublin. north-west from and 6 miles west-by-north from The chief landowners are Sir John de Marie Haggerstone: Be11ingham; the nearest railway station is Tarset, about Ii bart. of Ellingham Hall, Chathill; WilIiam Oswald Charlton miles east from the parish church, but on Tuesdays the first esq. .l.P. of Hesleyside, Hellingham; H. G. Clayton esq. of train east and the mid-day train north-west stop at Thorney- The Chesters, Hexham; the Rev. James AIlgood M.A. of Nun­ burn ~tation, about half a mile distant, both stations being wick Hall, Hu~haugh; Richard Thompson, Thomas Spen­ on the section of the North British railway extending from cer esq. The Grove, Ryton, and Thomas Dixon esq. Low Riccarton Junction to Hexham and Morpeth : a foot suspen- Fields. The area is 20,026 acres; rateable value, £3,487 ; sion bridge, erected by subscription in 1854 at a cost of the population in 1891 was 205. £ 170, crosses .the Nort~ Ty;ue and connect.s G:eystead with CHIRDON is a township in the parish of Greystead, extend. Tbo;neyburn , the parish IS about 14 m~les ID length ~nd ing along the eastern side of the Chirdonburn. The area i~ 4! ID breadt~, and extends between Chlr~onburn, Clmt· 6,5II acres of land and 58 of water; rateable value, £1,209,~ burn and Smulesburn, and from the south Side of the.~o~th the population in 189 1 waS 67. By a Local Government. Tyne to the borders of Cu~b~~land, In. th~ Hexham dlVl~lon Order, dated March 25, 1886, a portion of this townshi~ of the county, ~orth-w~~t.dlV1S10~ of Tmdale ward, Bellm.g- known as Tarsethall Haugh was added to BellinO'ham. ham petty sessIOnal dlVlsIOn, umon and county court dls- ...... trict, rural deanery of Bellingham, archdel!>~nry of North- SMALES.MOUTH 18 a township 10 the parish of Greysteaa. umberland and diocese of Newcastle. The cbnrch, on the the area IS 13,365 acres of l.and. and 92 of water; ratea.ble south side of ~he NorthTyne,and on the main r~d to FIIoIstone value, £2,278 ; the populatIOn m 1891 was 138.. and Kielder, is a plain building of stone in the Gothic 8tyle, ILetters through Falstone R.S.O. by foot ~ost. arnve about consisting of nave, south porch and a low embatt.led west6rn II a.m. The nearest money or~er office IS at Falstone, tower, containing one bell: the church Was restored and rew &; telegraph office at Fa.lstone statIOn seated in 1879, and has 150 sittings. The register dates HOTT is a hamlet in the parish of Greystead, from whic~ from the year 1818. Tb~ living ~~ § ~()~ory, "v~r,,~ ~itl:l~ it i~, 'lUll,rter Q~ ~ p!ilE} ~I?~ Q~ ~he r<.>a.q to B~l1inghaJ;D\